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New species of urban lizard found
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- Guwahati, the largest city in the Northeast, has yielded a new species of lizard – the urban bent-toed gecko.
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- About the New Species:
(1) Study Published in: Zootaxa, a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists
(2) The new species of lizard, zoologically named Cyrtodactylus urbanus, is markedly different in molecular structure, blotch and colour from the Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis, or the Guwahati bent-toed gecko, that was discovered two years ago.
(3) All bent-toed geckos in Northeast India were earlier thought to be a single species, the Cyrtodactylus khasiensis found primarily in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya.
(4) Photographs taken of the urban bent-toed from the Basistha area of Guwahati in 2011 made global experts realise it was a different species.
Sources
The Hindu